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By Erica Razook
Anyone who watched scenes of blatant patronage politics employed to end slavery and win the civil war in the United States, as depicted in the 2012 film Lincoln,might well question if corruption is necessarily the nemesis of the progression of basic human freedoms and rights.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board and the University of Lagos to court over “outrageous cut-off marks decisions”.
The organization is seeking an order stopping JAMB, UNILAG and others from implementing the decisio

Ahead of the meeting of President Muhammadu Buhari with officials of the Obama government this week, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Obama to “back up his expressed commitment on stolen assets by taking thoughtful and aggressive steps to deal with the p

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on “the International Criminal Court (ICC) to refer South Africa to the UN Security Council for allowing Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir to leave the country, ahead of a court ruling on whether he should be transferred to the ICC

President Muhammadu Buhari has rather wisely turned the spotlight on recovering stolen funds. The President recently confirmed that his government has “received firm assurances of cooperation from the U.S. and other countries on the recovery and repatriation of funds stolen from Nigeria.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged state governments and the Federal Government to International Labour Organisation (ILO), “requesting its Governing Body to, suo motu, and in its own capacity, establish without delay a Commission of Inquiry to examine systematic and egregious non-observance of Convention No 29 on Forced Labour and other international standards on the right of workers to timely payment of salaries.”

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has welcomed “the promise by Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to publish details on the disbursement of Excess Crude